You know, Condoleezza, I used to think that you
are intelligent, properly-educated, and kind of cute. Now, after the
incredibly idiotic remark it was reported that you made last weekend
(“I don’t understand why civilians need to have access to
military weapons.”) I have some serious doubts. I still have
trouble believing you are that stupid, or that ignorant of American
and world history, so it’s fairly clear that this failure on
your part is thought-out and deliberate, and that you are one of the
bad-guys.

That’s very sad.

People on the wrong side of this issue frequently
blather that America’s Founding Fathers—who, for the most
part, were aware only of single-shot muzzle-loading rifles and
pistols—couldn’t have imagined civilians armed with
automatic or semiautomatic weapons. On the contrary, what the Founding
Fathers couldn’t have imagined is a time when ordinary citizens
are forbidden to own and carry weapons fully as capable as those of
the military, defeating the entire purpose of the Second
Amendment. They understood what you and others like you pretend
not to, that military weapons in civilian hands are for preserving
civil rights and civilian lives. As leftists continuously whimper,
they are, indeed “weapons of war”: humanity’s
10,000-year-old continuing war against tyranny.

So I’ll repeat: military weapons in civilian
hands are for preserving civil rights and civilian lives. They are,
indeed “weapons of war”: humanity’s 10,000-year-old
continuing war against tyranny. I have lived through the terms of
twelve United States Presidents, at least half of whom I did not
trrust, and who made me extremely glad there’s a Second
Amendment to act as a continuous deterrent. The President you worked
for had even liberals buying guns and reading the Constitution.
Happily, any warm, pleasant dreams that he or any of the others may
have cherished about slapping down a recalitrant peasantry would have
been dashed by the icy cold water of Japanese Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto’s apocalyptic vision of America consisting of “a
rifleman behind every blade of grass”.

Military weapons in civilian hands are for
preserving civil rights and civilian lives. I repeat it once again so
you can get it through your statist head. They are, indeed
“weapons of war”: humanity’s 10,000-year-old
continuing war against tyranny. Don’t tell me that it
can’t happen here. It already has. When the BATFE and the
FBI, both organizations without Constitutional standing, ignored
Yamamoto’s warning and illegally imprisoned and murdered 76
innocent individuals in their church near Waco, Texas, in the Spring
of 1993, simply because they wouldn’t come outside when ordered
to by a gang of jackbooted thugs, the armed citizenry may have lost
that particular battle, but the people inside held the feds off for 51
days, and government lost the war in general, as shown clearly by the
final resolution of the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada.

Military weapons in civilian hands are for
preserving civil rights and civilian lives. They are, indeed
“weapons of war”: humanity’s 10,000-year-old
continuing war against tyranny. Our Revolutionary ancestors actually
had better guns—Pennsylvania rifles—than the British,
armed with smoothbore muskets. Imagine a world in which the Armenians
had been as well armed as the Turkish military. Imagine a world in
which the Jews in Germany had been armed as well as the SS or the
Wehrmacht. Imagine a world in which the Cambodian people had been
armed as well as Pol Pot’s murderous thugs. According to
research published years ago by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms
Ownership (look it up), every major act of genocide in the last
century was preceded by sweeping gun control laws.

Military weapons in civilian hands are for
preserving civil rights and civilian lives. They are, indeed
“weapons of war”: humanity’s 10,000-year-old
continuing war against tyranny. For better or worse, Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull showed us what would happen if Indians (that’s what
they call themselves) were armed as well as the US Seventh Cavalry.
Now, Condoleezza, imagine a world in which ordinary Africans had been
armed as well as those who kidnapped and enslaved them. With vermin
like Anti-fa roaming the streets, smashing windows, throwing Molotov
cocktails, and crushing the skulls of innocent people, especially with
politically correct police “standing down”, the need for
an effectively-armed citizenry is greater than ever.

Military weapons in civilian hands are for
preserving civil rights and civilian lives. They are, indeed
“weapons of war”: humanity’s 10,000-year-old
continuing war against tyranny. Tell me, Condoleezza, if you can, what
the hell does any of this—preventing future mass murders like
those in Armenian Turkey, the Nazi Holocaust, or Cambodia (and at
least a dozen other places—look that up, too)—have to do
with “toxic masculinity”, as prissy, self-righteous male
lesbian college professors at Princeton and similar wretched hives of
scum and villainy would have it?

This culture desperately needs more guns in the
hands of more individuals, as the Founding Fathers intended, not
fewer. Ther weren’t “too many” guns at Columbine,
there were too few. And many more of them should be
“military” in configuration. The federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is a billion dollar
government agency dedicated to disarming the American people,
destroying the firearms market, and the absurd and contradictory
proposition that you can regulate a fundamental right. Its very
existence is a violation of the Second Amendment and evidence of how
badly that amendment is needed.

Call me an extremist if you will; my views are
entirely consistent with those of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and
George Mason, among others, America’s “Authors of
Liberty”. I’ll say it one more time: military weapons in
civilian hands are for preserving civil rights and civilian lives.
They are, indeed “weapons of war”: humanity’s
10,000-year-old continuing war against tyranny.

Publisher and Senior Columnist L. Neil Smith is the author of
over thirty books, mostly science fiction novels, L. Neil Smith has
been a libertarian activist since 1962. His many books and those of
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